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Mapping Militant Organizations. Paris conference to send Trump a warning over Israel and Palestinians. The international community will send Donald Trump a strong warning that only a two-state solution can solve the Israel-Palestinian crisis, amid signs that the EU is willing to diverge from the US on Israel policy.

Could it be that they need to extricate their special forces embedded with terrorist-dominated militants?
Why the US fears Russia is hacking its presidential election. Image copyright Thinkstock Amidst all the heat of the presidential debate on Sunday night, hackers surfaced for a brief moment.

The two candidates clashed over a claim that hackers tied to the Russian state were trying to influence the election. Two days earlier, on Friday, the US director of national intelligence had pointed the finger at the highest levels of the Russian state for intrusions. Critics of Russia have argued that any role would be part of a growing trend of not just stealing information but also weaponising it. Image copyright Getty Images. In Kerry's Footsteps: What Saudi 'Plan B' Actually Means for Syria and Iran. Politics Get short URL Following the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Vienna Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister told journalists that it is time to shift the focus to the so-called 'Plan B' in Syria.

"We believe we should have moved to a 'Plan B' a long time ago," Adel al-Jubeir told reporters, as quoted by Reuters.
Blubrry PowerPress Player. “Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. This article was first published on Global Research on April 29, 2013.

Global Research Editor’s Note The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. In recent developments, Donald Trump has confirmed his support of Israel’s illegal settlements and his opposition to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which confirms the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, “the area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” According to Rabbi Fischmann, “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”

Quwwāt Sūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīya‎, Kurdish: Hêzên Sûriya Demokratîk‎, Syriac: Ḥaylawotho d'Suriya Demoqraṭoyto‎), commonly abbreviated as SDF or QSD, are a multi-ethnic and multi-religious alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias in the Syrian Civil War. Founded in October 2015, the SDF states its mission as fighting to create a secular, democratic and federal Syria, along the lines of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria.
Why U.S. Soldiers Wore a Kurdish Rebel Insignia. Updated on May 27 at 2:31 p.m. ET The U.S. Defense Department has ordered American special-operations forces to take down the insignia of a Kurdish rebel group that Turkey regards as a terrorist organization—after angry complaints from Ankara and despite justifying the patches a day earlier.

Democratic Emails Hacked by Russia. Hillary Clinton in last night’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this.

After Clinton made this claim, she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country.
Center for Effective Government. Government Matters: July 28, 2015 Vol. 3 No. 15 PDF Version Citizen Health & Safety Survey Says: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Protecting Endangered Animals, Natural Resources by Tania Matsuoka read in full.

On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call. For years, WikiLeaks has been publishing massive troves of documents online — usually taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content.

In some instances, these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks — as the New York Times and The Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables — while other times media outlets simply review the archives published by WikiLeaks and then report on what they deem newsworthy. WikiLeaks has always been somewhat controversial, but reaction has greatly intensified this year because many of its most significant leaks have had an impact on the U.S. presidential election and, in particular, have focused on Democrats. As a result, it’s worth reviewing a few crucial principles and facts about the journalistic process. 1.
The Truth about Task Force 373: War Logs Cast Light on Dirty Side of Afghanistan Conflict.

It is late at night on June 24, 2009, when a unit of Task Force 373 heads out on one of its missions.

Their target is a property with the code name of "Millersville," a small farm somewhere near the Pakistani border in eastern Afghanistan where the Taliban commander Amir Jan Mutaki is believed to be staying. According to a classified United States military document, he is supposed to have taken part in attacks on ISAF convoys on Highway 1.
The Truth about Task Force 373: War Logs Cast Light on Dirty Side of Afghanistan Conflict. Jill Stein, Gary Johnson and 'the others' - News from Al Jazeera. The race for the White House this year is generally described as a competition between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

But in fact, dozens of others are also running. Since 1869, the occupant of the Oval Office has been either a Democrat or a Republican. But with this year’s main contenders being unprecedentedly unpopular, other candidates have gained some traction. Because of the way the American political system is built, so-called third-party candidates basically have zero chances of winning.. WATCH: Does voting third party mean a Donald Trump victory?

Under the electoral college vote, the popular vote does not matter. The term third-party is used for American political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties.
Criticism of the 9/11 Commission. Criticism of the 9/11 Commission includes a variety of criticisms of the 9/11 Commission, the United States congressional commission set up to investigate the September 11 attacks in 2001 and chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. Because the investigation was politically sensitive, many participants have been criticized during the process. Leading critics include members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee and the Jersey Girls, who according to the documentary 9/11: Press for Truth, were instrumental in overcoming government resistance to establishing the 9/11 Commission.

[citation needed] The 9/11 Commission members were appointed by President George W.
Citizenfour: a victim of the DVD waiting game. For the best part of a century, film fandom was defined by waiting: waiting for a movie to be made, waiting for it to be released one continent at a time, and finally waiting for it to arrive on home video, often as much as a year after its initial premiere. Today, such delays seem laughable, as films routinely debut in dozens of countries simultaneously before shuffling on to laptop screens a week later. What becomes, then, of those films that prefer the waiting game? The acclaimed documentary Citizenfour opened to disappointing numbers in UK cinemas last October, and has been markedly slow to explore other options.
Prisoners: Who's Still Held? - Welcome to "Close Guantánamo"
779 prisoners have been held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002.

Of those, 664 have been released or transferred, one was transferred to the U.S. to be tried, and nine have died, the most recent being Adnan Latif, in September 2012. 105 men are still held, and 46 of these men have been recommended for release by high-level governmental review processes. 132 of the 779 prisoners have been released under President Obama, and although no prisoners were released for 15 months from January 2011, two Uighur prisoners (Muslims from China's Xinjiang province) were released in April 2012, another man, Ibrahim al-Qosi, who was given a two-year sentence after a plea deal in July 2010, was released in July 2012, and in September 2012, Omar Khadr, a former child prisoner, was transferred to Canada to serve the rest of the sentence he negotiated as part of plea deal in October 2010.

In January 2015, another five men -- all Yemenis -- were resettled.
European News Resources - European Studies - Research Guides at New York University. Albanian Daily News (Daily newspaper) [English] Founded: 1995. The Man Who Spilled the Secrets. The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Web’s notorious information anarchist, and some of the world’s most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper. What followed was a clash of civilizations—and ambitions—as Guardian editors and their colleagues at The New York Times and other media outlets struggled to corral a whistle-blowing stampede amid growing distrust and anger.

Curious case of Israel's invasion of Gaza. Julian Assange: The Untold Story Of An Epic Struggle For Justice - New Matilda. Justice for Assange. The September 11, 2001 Attacks. 10 False Flags that Changed the World: #1 What really happened on September 11, 2001? There are too many speculations to examine in this space, but one ludicrous conspiracy theory deserves mention. It goes like this:
The Trouble with WTC Asbestos. Gaci_holocaust.pdf. Obama targets journalists. [Glenn Greenwald is on vacation this week and three writers will be filling in for him]